Staff and students to unveil Mansfield Quakers heritage trail

Staff and students from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies have contributed to an audio […]

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Tags: Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Frances Knight, history, local, Mansfield, Nottingham, Quakerism, Religion

Representation and abstraction: politics and the body

In this free event, Professor Richard King discusses ‘Representation and abstraction: politics and the body’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.

Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary

Text paintings and speech acts: literary encounters

In this free event, Professor Sharon Monteith discusses ‘Text paintings and speech acts: literary encounters’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.

Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary

Civil rights photojournalism and open letters on race and rights

In this free event, Professor Sharon Monteith discusses ‘Civil rights Photojournalism and open letters on race and rights’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.

Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary

African-American art and influences

In this free event, Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier presents ‘African-American art and influences’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.

Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary

‘Killers of the King’ – with Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

Join the Department of History to hear best-selling historian Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, tell the shocking stories and fascinating fates of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant.

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Free online course – Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life MOOC

Explore how propaganda is used to instil political ideologies and its impact on our lives. The […]

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Tags: FutureLearn, history, Maiken Umbach, Matthew Humphrey, MOOC, politics, propaganda

AncientBiotics – a medieval remedy for modern day superbugs?

A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections which originates from a manuscript in […]

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Tags: arts, Christina Lee, health, history, medicine, MRSA, Old English, School of English, science, superbugs

Cartography and cultural revolution: maps, modernity and the New Soviet man

Dr Nick Baron, Department of History, presents ‘Cartography and cultural revolution: maps, modernity and the New Soviet man’. This talk will explore the role and meaning of cartography in early Soviet culture, with a particular focus on the Stalin period.

Tags: cartography, Department of History, history, Institute for Science and Society, ISS, New Soviet man, Nick Baron, soviet

ISOS Annual Public Lecture 2015

The ISOS Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof Robin Law, Emeritus Professor of African History (University of Stirling) on ‘Provisioning the slave trade: the supply of corn on the seventeenth-century Gold Coast’.

Tags: Department of classics, history, Institute for the Study of Slavery, ISOS, ISOS Annual Public Lecture, Robin Law, Stephen Hodkinson, University of Stirling